Lesson Planning

Teaching

• Understand that we have different ways of exploring the world and that often our senses work together to help us do that.
• Go outside to explore the school grounds using different senses.
• Explore what is it like when the sense of sight is taken away (Yr1).
• Explore the idea of pairs of senses working together (Yr2).

Activities

1. Go outside to explore the school grounds using different senses.
2. Explore what is it like when the sense of sight is taken away (Yr1).
3. Understand that often our senses work together to help us explore the world (Yr2).

Investigation
Year 1 - Use blindfolds to explore without the sense of sight.
Year 2 - Understand how the senses work together.

Vocabulary
Touch, sight, smell, taste, hear, sense